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Not that I really trusted Rotten Tomatoes' reviews all the time, but what happened Fembusters merely reinforces that some of those reviewers are complete hacks with an agenda.
The Ghostbusters Thread (Old, New, Animated, Whatever)
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Not that I really trusted Rotten Tomatoes' reviews all the time, but what happened Fembusters merely reinforces that some of those reviewers are complete hacks with an agenda.
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I love how they add the "GAY WOMEN" in this as if it was clearly announced in the teaser or even the film when its just barely mentionned after the facts by Feig.
Not that I really trusted Rotten Tomatoes' reviews all the time, but what happened Fembusters merely reinforces that some of those reviewers are complete hacks with an agenda.
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you're thinking of China.
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They must have autism, since they're sucking a cynical and poorly run company's rigid black cock hard for that label, and we know only autists care so much about brand loyalty.
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Really, Asian cultures, in general. To them, ghosts/spirits are everyday things.
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So I hear the movie is making back it's production budget now. Shills for the movie are acting like this is a big deal cuz ITS NOT A FLOP NOW GUISE but they fail to remember how much money was sunk into marketing as well.
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Funny how this dumbbell said nothing about the quality of the story, jokes, acting, effects, dialogue, ect when praising the movie. Just straight to "BECAUSE HURR DURR REPRESENTATION."
And lest we forget the cut the theaters themselves take, which is usually around 50% when it's all said and done (some markets take more, some markets take less). So in reality, it probably still only made back half of what it cost to produce it.
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"two women who don't depend on men" Reading through the plot, didn't one of them fall for the dumb male secretary?
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Actually one of them still hopelessly clings on to the patriarchal scientific principle that disgraced and disempowered her; two downright steal from their male ex-employer to set up their new shop. The Gorilla uses her uncle's limo -- a phallic symbol -- to wedge her way into the Ghostbustesses.
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And don't forget that three of the four characters commit felonies, ranging from grand larceny to murder. Ironically Harambe's only charge would at best be property damage during the graveyard smash; the others trump her in being violent and selfish criminals.
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You guys can make all the jokes you want, but do you have any idea how much Leslie "Harambe" Jones got paid for that movie? Go on, take a guess.
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In the last week or so, I've seen a lot of Ghostbusters food and toy merchandise all in the image of Slimer, StayPuft and the Ghostbusters logo, but strangely I haven't seen the Fem!busters faces on anything. I wonder why...
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I was buying groceries at Walmart last night and I saw a shitload of figures of the original Ghostbusters, but none of the reboot.
I wonder if people were actualy buying the 2016 ones or if they ended up in clearance. I hear a lot of the merch didn't sell well?
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At my local Target, the Ghostbusters toys were on clearance the same weekend the movie came out.
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To my understanding, a lot of the merchandise for the movie was on clearance before it even came out. That's really bad - generally this doesn't happen until long after the movie has been released.
I'm surprised they even think they can make a sequel out of this:
I'm doubtful of that, unless Sony really likes throwing money away.
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Just watched the Nostalgia Critic's review of the film. He actually does a half decent job and the guys who run around as the "Chicago Division" make an appearance again which is always nice to see.
TBH the trailer is what turned me off from even bothering to go see this movie. Not that it sucked or that I am some sort of mega-ghostbusters fan (I'm not but I enjoy both films) but because it was clearly being written by someone who had no fucking clue what they were doing for a re imagining and seemed to know jack shit about writing women.
The worst part, now confirmed, is stuff like Leslie Jones' character being a piss poor cutout and a frankly insulting magical negro with attitude as opposed to Ernie Hudson's "Everyman who happened to be a blackman."
The others, from what I have heard are bland as hell stereotypes too.
The main thing GB has going for it is potential and nostalgia which is why the new ghostbusters faces are on very little wider merch. It's the enduring icons which are what sell things. The symbol, the costume, Ecto-cooler those are things which can endure.
If Sony did go for a sequel I'd go out and out and be brave, be bold. Go for something bold and better than what was presented and don't cut plot crucial elements because of whinging tits on twitter.
TBH the trailer is what turned me off from even bothering to go see this movie. Not that it sucked or that I am some sort of mega-ghostbusters fan (I'm not but I enjoy both films) but because it was clearly being written by someone who had no fucking clue what they were doing for a re imagining and seemed to know jack shit about writing women.
The worst part, now confirmed, is stuff like Leslie Jones' character being a piss poor cutout and a frankly insulting magical negro with attitude as opposed to Ernie Hudson's "Everyman who happened to be a blackman."
The others, from what I have heard are bland as hell stereotypes too.
The main thing GB has going for it is potential and nostalgia which is why the new ghostbusters faces are on very little wider merch. It's the enduring icons which are what sell things. The symbol, the costume, Ecto-cooler those are things which can endure.
If Sony did go for a sequel I'd go out and out and be brave, be bold. Go for something bold and better than what was presented and don't cut plot crucial elements because of whinging tits on twitter.
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It's beyond me why they couldn't even consider laying their ideas underneath something sensible, like a legacy movie in which a couple of the older Ghostbusters trained two women (i,e: Force Awakens-y). Instead they decided to go full "we's-stronk-and-independant-wimminz-don't-need-no-man!" and alienate their main fanbase with their bullshit, although I'm not sure just how much Sony oversaw Feig's project.
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Yeah, honestly I'd have gotten Ernie Hudson (with cameos by Akyroyd) to train the next generation of busters (open casted for all) after Murray gets arrested for tax evasion or something and Ramis dies of old age as the eccentric (but now deeply respected) scientist he played in that film. They deal with the ghostbros shitting on the (now actual) profession since I'd have ghost outbreaks be rare sort of cyclical events barring occult fuckery, which means that fraudsters and kooks can ply their trade but must be careful about it, and the villain for the movie is the ghost of a crime boss aiming to make New York his city again.
Not Undirected Improv the Movie, as directed by "Guy not used to big budget films and who can't fucking adult".
Not Undirected Improv the Movie, as directed by "Guy not used to big budget films and who can't fucking adult".
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You want to eat them or drink their "juice"? How patriarchal!
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I'd have probably taken another mallet to the Ghosbusters 3/Video Game script. There was a lot of cool shit buried in there like the Cult of Gozer. Why not have a neo-gozerian cult off of the back of the events of 1985? Hudson in the lead as the baton-passer/CEO with Ackroyd doing some of the new tech and five new ghostbusters representing each of the city's boroughs, recruiting some from Columbia University.
Play on the sterotypes of the boroughs and the people who live there but don't fucking pigeon hole the newbies with lazy writing.